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staddle stone

staddle stone noun: one of the mushroom-shaped stones used as a support (a staddle) for a barn or granary. The shape prevents rats from climbing up to the barn.

staddle stone: one of the mushroom-shaped stones used as a support (a staddle) for a barn or granary. The shape...
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Noun

staddle stone (plural staddle stones)

  1. One of the mushroom-shaped stones used as a support (a staddle) for a barn or granary. The shape prevents rats from climbing up to the barn.
    • [I]solate the body of the building from the ground […] embodied in the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century granaries, built on staddle stones, which still survive in many English farmyards.1983, Barry Cunliffe, chapter 6, in Danebury Hillfort, Stroud: Tempus

Forms of staddle stone

pluralstaddle stones

Questions about staddle stone

What does staddle stone mean?
Staddle stone means one of the mushroom-shaped stones used as a support (a staddle) for a barn or granary. The shape prevents rats from climbing up to the barn.
What part of speech is staddle stone?
Staddle stone is a noun.
What is the plural of staddle stone?
The plural of staddle stone is staddle stones.

Words near staddle stone in the dictionary

  1. Stacyville
  2. stad
  3. stadda
  4. staddas
  5. staddle
  6. staddle stone
  7. staddle stones
  8. staddled
  9. staddles
  10. staddlestone
  11. Staddlethorpe

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